I duly recd your letter enclosing a check for $80, for which I am truly thankful — This will be
quite sufficient for all the expenditures you mention but I am afraid if I purchase a piece of linen of which I am much in want I shall
have none left for pocket money — & if you could get me a piece or a 1/2 piece at Mr Galts & send
it to me by the boat, I could get it made up gratis by my Aunt Maria —

The Poems will be printed by Hatch & Dunning of this city upon terms advantageous to me they printing it
& giving me 250 copies of the book: — <they> I will send it on by Mr Dunning who is going
immediately to Richmond —

I am glad to hear that your trip to the springs was of service in recruiting your health & spirits
—

Give my love to Miss V. —

I remain Dear Pa, Yours affectionately Edgar A Poe

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Notes:

This letter is printed here with permission from the Valentine Museum in Richmond, Virginia. A photographic facsimile of this
letter was published in Mary Newton Stanard, Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished in the Valentine Museum, Richmond,
Virginia, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1925.